Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

Re-development schemes and applications for vesting orders N.I.

48.—(1) Where the Executive declares an area to be a proposed re-development area, it shall prepare and submit to the Department a re-development scheme, indicating—

(a) the houses in that area which are considered to be unfit for human habitation or, by reason of their bad arrangement, or the narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets, to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the area;

(b) in general terms the manner in which it is intended that the area should be laid out and the land therein used,

and shall apply to the Department for an order vesting that land in the Executive.

(2) When a re-development scheme is submitted, and application for a vesting order made to the Department, the Executive shall thereupon—

(a) publish in one or more than one newspaper circulating in the proposed re-development area a notice—

(i) describing the proposed re-development area and referring to the submission of the re-development scheme;

(ii) specifying the place at which copies of the scheme may be seen at reasonable times;

(iii) stating that an application has been made to the Department for an order vesting in the Executive the lands included in the re-development scheme;

(iv) stating the time (not being less than one month from the last of the publications of the notice) during which objections to the scheme, or to the making of the order, or to both the scheme and the making of the order, may be sent to the Department;

(b) serve on every person appearing to the Executive to have an estate in any land within the proposed re-development area a notice containing the particulars referred to in sub-paragraph ( a).

(3) The Executive shall submit to the Department such further particulars in relation to a re-development scheme as the Department may require.